Okay, When we potty trained Quinnlyn, of course she was too young to wipe her own bum....and even later on I just didn't want to deal with her not wiping well enough so I continued to do it for her. A few months ago Brett & I decided it was time for her to wipe herself (long overdue). Well, she has been FIGHTING IT ever since. She will seriously just sit on the toilet and cry until we come and wipe her. Here is the struggle that we had today:
"MOM...I'M DONE!!!!"
"So wipe"
"No I can't"
"Yes you can....I'm not going to do it for you anymore"
"Yes you need to"
"Nope you're a big girl and you can wipe yourself"
(of course she's crying by now)
"I'm not a big girl I'm a princess and princesses don't wipe their bums"
"Yes they do"
"Well I'm a puppy"
"Puppies wipe their bums too"
"Then I am a grasshopper"
"They wipe their bums too"
"No they don't, they can't"
"Well their mommies don't wipe their bums either, so what now?"
After about thirty minutes of us arguing (and her sitting on the toilet), I finally went in to watch her wipe....it makes her feel better when we watch her. How did this become our biggest struggle? She potty-trained in a day, gave up the binkie in a day, switched to a big girl bed with no problem, and here we are arguing with her to WIPE HER OWN BUM!!!!Is it really that difficult?
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What a funny girl! Kenna did the same type of thing when we told her she had to start wiping her own bum. She just didn't argue all those things. Just what she was too little! lol!
That's so funny! I'm sure to you it isn't, but what a smart girl she is! She should be on a debate team! At least she wants to be wiped... Aaralyn will poop and I won't know it, and she'll just run around without her clothes on or else put her clothes back on and get poop in her underwear! I wish she would tell me when she went!
At least you still don't have to CHANGE her diapers!!!!!!! I have 2kids in diapers... so I would trade you for just having to wipe him on the toilet. But... it's still a pain I'm sure...
Kennedy will usually wipe herself, but I am like you and want to wipe to make sure she's clean . . .I guess I better let her do it herself so I'm not having to do it in a few months.
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